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January 2009, Volume 34, Issue 1
- 100-118 The Impact of Mortgage-Backed Securities on Capital Requirements of Life Insurers in the Financial Crisis of 2007–2008
by Etti G Baranoff & Thomas W Sager - 119-136 One Possible Life Insurance Market Response to Ageing
by Gustavo Ferro - 137-157 Old-Age Security and Silver Workers: An Empirical Survey Identifies Challenges for Companies, Insurers and Society
by Jürgen Deller & Patrick M Liedtke & Leena M Maxin
October 2008, Volume 33, Issue 4
- 585-587 Editorial
by Christophe Courbage - 588-609 Community Rating, Entry-Age Rating and Adverse Selection in Private Health Insurance in Australia*
by Thomas Buchmueller - 610-626 Private Supplementary Health Insurance: Retirees' Demand
by Carine Franc & Marc Perronnin & Aurélie Pierre - 627-644 Health Insurance and Lifestyle Choices: Identifying Ex Ante Moral Hazard in the US Market
by Anderson E Stanciole - 645-658 Empirical Evidence on Long-term Care Insurance Purchase in France*
by Christophe Courbage & Nolwenn Roudaut - 659-672 Long-Term Care: Risk Description of a Spanish Portfolio and Economic Analysis of the Timing of Insurance Purchase
by Montserrat Guillén & Jean Pinquet - 673-693 Relative Income and Attitudes towards Long-Term Care Financing
by Joan Costa-Font & Anna Garcia-Gonzalez & Montserrat Font-Vilalta - 694-709 An Empirical Analysis of Patterns in the Japanese Long-Term Care Insurance System
by Olivia S Mitchell & John Piggott & Satoshi Shimizutani - 710-727 Does the Age Profile of Health Care Expenditure Really Steepen over Time? New Evidence from Swiss Cantons
by Stefan Felder & Andreas Werblow - 728-743 Re-estimating the Demographic Impact on Health Care Expenditure: Evidence from Taiwan
by Yung-Ming Shiu & Mei-Ching Chiu - 744-767 The Cost Incidence of the U.K.'s NHS System
by Paul J M Klumpes & Liyan Tang
July 2008, Volume 33, Issue 3
- 363-388 Why are Insurance Companies Different? The Limits of Convergence Among Financial Institutions*
by Andrea Beltratti & Giuseppe Corvino - 389-407 Reasons for the Coexistence of Different Distribution Channels: An Empirical Test for the German Insurance Market
by Lucinda Trigo-Gamarra - 408-417 Bancassurance: Tapping into the Banking Strength*
by Mark Teunissen - 418-439 The Swiss Solvency Test and its Market Implications
by Martin Eling & Nadine Gatzert & Hato Schmeiser - 440-463 The Relevance of Portfolio Management Action for Solvency Measurement
by Alexander König & Axel Brohm - 464-488 Why Insurers Fail: The Dynamics of Property and Casualty Insurance Insolvency in Canada
by Darrell Leadbetter & Suela Dibra - 489-506 The Chinese Insurance Market: Estimating its Long-Term Growth and Size*
by Wei Zheng & Yongdong Liu & Gerry Dickinson - 507-529 Global Climate Change in the Wider Context of Sustainability
by Walter R Stahel - 530-546 The Emergence of Cross-Border Insurance Groups within Europe with Centralised Risk Management
by Dirk Schoenmaker & Sander Oosterloo & Otto Winkels - 547-565 Deposit Insurance and Banking Supervision in China: The Agenda Ahead
by Haibo Yan & Ying Huang - 566-584 Demutualization and Demand for Reinsurance
by Jennifer L Wang & Vincent Y Chang & Gene C Lai & Larry Y Tzeng
April 2008, Volume 33, Issue 2
- 177-192 Malpractice Payouts and Malpractice Insurance: Evidence from Texas Closed Claims, 1990–2003*
by Charles Silver & Kathryn Zeiler & Bernard S Black & David A Hyman & William M Sage - 193-206 A Critical Analysis of the Solvency II Proposals
by René Doff - 207-218 The Need to Monitor Customer Loyalty and Business Risk in the European Insurance Industry
by Montserrat Guillen & Jens Perch Nielsen & Ana M Pérez-Marín - 219-233 Does National Health Insurance Promote Access to Quality Health Care? Evidence from Nigeria
by Ade Ibiwoye & Ismail A Adeleke - 234-249 Risk Analysis of Mortality Improvement: The Case of Chinese Annuity Markets
by Hong Mao & Krzysztof M Ostaszewski & Yuling Wang - 250-268 Insuring Large-Scale Floods in the Netherlands
by Ruben Jongejan & Pauline Barrieu - 269-273 Law and Economics of Environmental Insurance (Editorial)
by Donatella Porrini - 274-287 A European Nuclear Accident Pool*
by Göran Skogh - 288-322 The Coverage of the Nuclear Risk in Europe: Which Alternative?*
by Michael G Faure & Karine Fiore - 323-336 Hell or High Water? An Economic Analysis of the Swedish Institutions for Flood Risk Management
by Erik Lenntorp - 337-362 The Efficient Liability Sharing Factor for Environmental Disasters: Lessons for Optimal Insurance Regulation*
by Marcel Boyer & Donatella Porrini
January 2008, Volume 33, Issue 1
- 1-6 The Securitization of Insurance Liabilities: The View from Zurich
by Dieter Wemmer - 1-6 The Securitization of Insurance Liabilities: The View from Zurich
by Dieter Wemmer - 7-11 Securitization and Insurance – Characteristics of Hannover Re's Approach
by Wilhelm Zeller - 7-11 Securitization and Insurance – Characteristics of Hannover Re's Approach
by Wilhelm Zeller - 12-32 Variable Annuities and the New Retirement Realities*
by Christopher M Condron - 12-32 Variable Annuities and the New Retirement Realities
by Christopher M Condron - 33-40 The Long-Term Care Insurance Market
by Denis Kessler - 33-40 The Long-Term Care Insurance Market
by Denis Kessler - 41-53 The IASB Discussion Paper on Insurance: A CFO Forum Perspective
by Denis Duverne & Jacques Le Douit - 41-53 The IASB Discussion Paper on Insurance: A CFO Forum Perspective*
by Denis Duverne & Jacques Le Douit - 54-59 IFRS and Solvency II: Global Exposure and Interaction – The Work of the IAIS
by Michel Flamée - 54-59 IFRS and Solvency II: Global Exposure and Interaction – The Work of the IAIS
by Michel Flamée - 60-65 Solvency II and the Work of CEIOPS
by Thomas Steffen - 60-65 Solvency II and the Work of CEIOPS
by Thomas Steffen - 66-70 Editorial
by Sophie Chemarin & Pierre Picard - 66-70 EditorialInsurance and Adaptation to Climate Change*
by Sophie Chemarin & Pierre Picard - 71-90 Climate Change and the Insurance Sector
by Andrew Dlugolecki - 71-90 Climate Change and the Insurance Sector
by Andrew Dlugolecki - 91-109 Insurability of Climate Risks
by Arthur Charpentier - 91-109 Insurability of Climate Risks
by Arthur Charpentier - 110-116 Preparing for Climate Change: Insurance and Small Business
by Kim Clemo - 110-116 Preparing for Climate Change: Insurance and Small Business
by Kim Clemo - 117-132 Role of Insurance in Reducing Flood Risk
by David Crichton - 117-132 Role of Insurance in Reducing Flood Risk
by David Crichton - 133-139 The Role of Insurers in Promoting Adaptation to the Impacts of Climate Change
by Robert E T Ward & Celine Herweijer & Nicola Patmore & Robert Muir-Wood - 133-139 The Role of Insurers in Promoting Adaptation to the Impacts of Climate Change
by Robert E T Ward & Celine Herweijer & Nicola Patmore & Robert Muir-Wood - 140-146 Climate Change: Impacts on Insurers and How They Can Help With Adaptation and Mitigation
by Trevor Maynard - 140-146 Climate Change: Impacts on Insurers and How They Can Help With Adaptation and Mitigation
by Trevor Maynard - 147-152 Challenges of the Renewable Energy Industry Generate New Demands for Risk Advisory: How to Value an Insurance Package from a Financing Perspective?
by Emmanuel Leblanc - 147-152 Challenges of the Renewable Energy Industry Generate New Demands for Risk Advisory: How to Value an Insurance Package from a Financing Perspective?
by Emmanuel Leblanc - 153-176 Extreme Events, Global Warming, and Insurance-Linked Securities: How to Trigger the “Tipping Point”
by Erwann Michel-Kerjan & Frederic Morlaye - 153-176 Extreme Events, Global Warming, and Insurance-Linked Securities: How to Trigger the “Tipping Point”
by Erwann Michel-Kerjan & Frederic Morlaye
October 2007, Volume 32, Issue 4
- 427-429 Editorial
by Geneviève Reday-Mulvey - 430-446 Rational Pension Reform
by Axel Börsch-Supan - 447-457 Risk Sharing and Stand-Alone Pension Schemes
by Arij Lans Bovenberg - 458-482 The Impact of Occupation and Gender on Pensions from Defined Contribution Plans
by David Blake & Andrew Cairns & Kevin Dowd - 483-493 Pension Reform in Poland
by Aleksandra Wiktorow - 494-515 Conditional Indexation in Defined Benefit Pension Plans in the Netherlands*
by Jacob A Bikker & Peter J G Vlaar - 516-531 Pension Changes in China and Opportunities for Insurance
by Qixiang Sun & Lingyan Suo - 532-552 New Zealand's Experiment in Tax Neutrality for Retirement Saving
by Susan St John - 553-569 Public Pensions and Labor Force Participation: The Case of Greece
by Milton Nektarios - 570-582 Redistributive Impact of Differential Mortality in the French Pay-As-You-Go System
by Thomas Barnay - 583-594 Performance Persistence of Spanish Pension Funds: The Best Winners and Losers Usually Repeat
by Luis Ferruz & Luis Vicente & Laura Andreu
July 2007, Volume 32, Issue 3
- 283-300 Finite Reinsurance: How does it Concern Supervisors? Some Efficiency Considerations in the Light of Prevailing Regulatory Aims*
by Sebastian von Dahlen - 301-318 Cross-Border Exchange of Information and Cooperation Between Insurance Supervisors
by Peter Braumüller - 319-331 An Update on the Use of Modern Financial Instruments in the Insurance Sector
by Ernst N Csiszar - 332-344 Accounting and Solvency Convergence – Dream or Reality?
by Rob Esson & Peter Cooke - 345-363 Bermuda Sidecars: Supervising Reinsurance Companies in Innovative Global Markets*
by Marcelo Ramella & Leila Madeiros - 364-381 International Solvency Requirements – Towards more Risk-based Regimes
by Tom Karp - 382-392 Group Diversification
by Philipp Keller - 393-400 The Future of Insurance Supervision in the EU: National Authorities, Lead Supervisors or EU Supranational Institution?
by Jan Monkiewicz - 401-412 Insuring the Low-Income Market: Challenges and Solutions for Commercial Insurers
by Craig Churchill - 413-425 Towards a Global Approach to Reinsurance Regulation
by Ralph Vogelgesang & Matthias Kubicek
April 2007, Volume 32, Issue 2
- 163-177 Potential Drawbacks of Price-based Accounting in the Insurance Sector
by Andrea Beltratti & Giuseppe Corvino - 178-189 Using External Data in Operational Risk
by Montserrat Guillen & Jim Gustafsson & Jens Perch Nielsen & Paul Pritchard - 190-210 Analysing the Performance of the Pension Fund Industry with a Stochastic Frontier Model: A Case Study for Portugal
by Carlos Pestana Barros & Maria Teresa Medeiros Garcia - 211-221 What's Insurance to a Modern Economy?
by Patrick M Liedtke - 222-245 The Theory of Catastrophe Risk Financing: A Look at the Instruments that Might Transform the Insurance Industry
by Stanley Mutenga & Sotiris K Staikouras - 246-263 De Facto versus De Jure Bank–Insurance Ventures in the Greek Market
by Elena Kalotychou & Sotiris K Staikouras - 264-282 The Impact of Corporate Governance Structure on the Efficiency Performance of Insurance Companies in Taiwan
by Jennifer L Wang & Vivian Jeng & Jin Lung Peng
January 2007, Volume 32, Issue 1
- 1-10 Changing Life Cycles and their Impact on Insurance
by Didier Blanchet - 11-15 A “Tour d'horizon” on the Continental European Life Insurance Market*
by Rolf Dörig - 16-21 Climate Change Impacts on Personal Insurance
by Gilles Benoist - 22-28 Climate Change and the Global Insurance Industry
by Michael Hawker - 29-34 Climate Change and the Global Insurance Industry: Impacts and Problems in Latin America
by Filomeno Mira Candel - 35-41 Insurance and the Capital Markets*
by Jozef De Mey - 42-45 Insurance, Finance, Solvency II and Financial Market Interaction
by Michael Butt - 46-57 Insurance and the Fixed Income Capital Markets
by Y C Wu & David Soanes - 58-61 Emerging from a Turbulent Marketplace
by Arthur F Ryan - 62-74 IFRS for Insurance: CFO Forum Proposals
by Denis Duverne & Jacques Le Douit - 75-94 The Finnish Pension Reform of 2005
by Jukka Lassila & Tarmo Valkonen - 95-104 The EU Reinsurance Directive
by Alastair M Evans - 105-132 Some Novel Perspectives on Risk Classification
by R Guy Thomas - 133-150 German Proposal for a Standard Approach for Solvency II
by Thomas Schubert & Gundula Grießmann - 151-162 Integrated, Consolidated or Specialized Financial Markets Supervisors: Is there an Optimal Solution?*
by Jan Monkiewicz
October 2006, Volume 31, Issue 4
- 551-556 On Health, Ageing and Insurance
by Christophe Courbage & Joan Costa-Font - 557-580 Population Ageing and the Sustainability of the Spanish National Health System: Some Financial Policy Alternatives
by Gemma Abio Roig - 581-599 “Steeping” of Health Expenditure Profiles
by Florian Buchner & Jürgen Wasem - 600-632 Behavioral Analysis of the Choice of Community-Based Formal Home Care, Informal Home Care and Nursing Home Care in Japan
by Tetsuji Yamada & Chia-Ching Chen & Tadashi Yamada & Marianne Fahs & Tetsuo Fukawa - 633-649 The Interaction of Public and Private Health Insurance: Ireland as a Case Study
by Brian Nolan - 650-668 Are Private Health Insurance Subscribers Unsatisfied with the Spanish National Health System?
by Joan Costa-Font & Mireia Jofre-Bonet - 669-691 Insurance Coverage and the Heterogeneity of Health and Drug Spending in the United States
by Marin Gemmill & Joan Costa-Font & Panos Kanavos - 692-704 Risk-Adjustment in Long-Term Health Insurance Contracts in Germany
by Johann Eekhoff & Markus Jankowski & Anne Zimmermann - 705-719 Lifetime Subsidies in Australian Private Health Insurance Markets with Community Rating
by Luke B Connelly & H Shelton Brown - 720-738 Evaluating Health Insurance: A Review of the Theoretical Foundations
by John A Nyman - 739-761 Do Micro Health Insurance Units Need Capital or Reinsurance? A Simulated Exercise to Examine Different Alternatives*
by David M Dror & John Armstrong
July 2006, Volume 31, Issue 3
- 377-381 Reputation and Reputational Risk Management
by Kai-Uwe Schanz - 382-394 The Question of Reputational Risk: Perspectives From An Industry
by Ernst Csiszar & Gregory W Heidrich - 395-408 Media Reputation of the Insurance Industry: An Urgent Call for Strategic Communication Management
by Robert G Eccles & Matthias Vollbracht - 409-424 Managing Reputational Risk: A Reinsurer's View
by Peter Forstmoser & Nikodemus Herger - 425-445 Risks to Reputation: A Global Approach
by Sophie Gaultier-Gaillard & Jean-Paul Louisot - 446-453 Reputation Management in the Japanese Insurance Marketplace
by Kunio Ishihara - 454-469 Reputation: Some Thoughts From An Investor's Point of View*
by Stefan Schürmann - 470-479 Some Thoughts on Reputation and Challenges for Global Financial Institutions
by George Stansfield - 480-499 Can Reputations be “Managed”?
by Gordon Stewart - 500-511 Reputational Risk in the context of A.M. Best's Rating Analysis
by Michael Zboron - 512-527 A Reliable Fair Value for Insurance Contracts
by Stefan Engel&aauml;nder & Joachim Kölschbach - 528-550 Risk Models for Capital Adequacy: Applications in the Context of Solvency II and Beyond
by Peter Liebwein
April 2006, Volume 31, Issue 2
- 187-189 Risk Classification and Public Policy
by Reimund Schwarze - 190-211 Fairness and Equality in Insurance Classification*
by Yves Thiery & Caroline Van Schoubroeck - 212-232 Age as a Variable in Insurance Pricing and Risk Classification
by Mary Kelly & Norma Nielson - 233-244 Unisex Tariffs in Health Insurance
by Oliver Riedel - 245-269 Risk Classification and Social Welfare*
by Michael Hoy - 270-276 Mainstreams in the Development of European Tort Law: A Front-Line Snapshot
by Bernhard A Koch - 277-292 Tort Law and Liability Insurance*
by Gerhard Wagner - 293-303 International Forum Shopping and Transnational Lawsuits
by Harald Koch - 304-313 Factors Likely to Influence Tort Litigation in the European Union
by Joan T Schmit - 314-322 Forum Shopping: A Practitioner's Perspective
by Anthony Fitzsimmons - 323-339 How Important are Insurers in Compensating Claims for Personal Injury in the U.K.?*
by Richard Lewis - 340-356 The Social Construction of Bodily Injury
by Phil Bell - 357-375 The American Class Action Fairness Act and Forum Shopping American-Style*
by Linda S Mullenix
January 2006, Volume 31, Issue 1
- 1-10 New Markets – New Regulation: The Latin-American Experience
by Manuel Aguilera-Verduzco - 11-16 New Markets – New Regulation
by Filomeno Mira Candel - 17-24 New Market, New Regulation and New Prospect – The Chinese Perspective
by Wu Dingfu - 25-30 External Forces Impacting the Insurance Industry: Threats from Regulation
by James J Schiro - 31-37 External Forces Shaping the Future of the Insurance Industry
by Gregory V Serio - 38-45 Our World
by Ron Pressman - 46-56 Future Financial Frameworks – Essentials for Risk-Based Capital Management
by Nikolaus von Bomhard & Clemens Frey - 57-82 Stochastic Modelling – Boon or Bane for Insurance Industry Capital Regulation?
by Oliver B&aauml;te & Philipp von Plato & Günther Thallinger - 83-87 Risk and Value: Changing Perceptions and Cultural Challenges for the Property and Casualty Industry
by Brian M O'Hara - 88-95 Natural and Large Catastrophes – Changing Risk Characteristics and Challenges for the Insurance Industry
by John R Coomber - 96-123 Group Aspects of Regulatory Reform in the Insurance Sector
by Patrick Darlap & Bernhard Mayr - 124-148 Business Opportunities and Market Realities in Financial Conglomerates
by Sotiris K Staikouras - 149-168 Economic Criteria for Compulsory Insurance*
by Michael G Faure - 169-185 The Challenge of Solvency Reform for European Insurers
by Philippe Trainar
October 2005, Volume 30, Issue 4
- 533-534 Editorial
by Geneviève Reday-Mulvey - 535-541 Private Pension Provision: An OECD View
by Juan Yermo - 542-564 Challenges Posed by Ageing to Financial and Monetary Stability*
by E Philip Davis - 565-580 Optimal Retirement Portfolios: Social Security Personal Accounts in the Context of the Four Pillars
by David P Richardson & Jason S Seligman - 581-592 A Mountain Too Far? The Saga of Social Security Personal Accounts
by Sheila Bair - 593-603 The Future of Pensions in Taiwan
by Yung-Ming Shiu - 604-619 Working Beyond 60 – Introduction: Key Policy Issues and Recommendations
by Geneviève Reday-Mulvey - 620-637 The Employment of Older People: Can We Learn from Japan?*
by Bernard H Casey - 638-655 The Fourth Pillar and the U.K.: Flexibility, Risk and the Deinstitutionalization of the Life Course
by Patrick John Ring - 656-673 Reversing the Trend from “Early” to “Late” Exit: Push, Pull and Jump Revisited in a Danish Context
by Per H Jensen - 674-692 Promoting Employment among Ageing Workers: Lessons from Successful Policy Changes in Finland
by Seija Ilmakunnas & Mervi Takala - 693-710 The Double Standard in Attitudes toward Retirement – The Case of the Netherlands
by Hendrik P Van Dalen & Kène Henkens - 711-723 Labour Force Participation of Older Workers in Italy: Trends, Causes and Policy Issues
by Dario Focarelli & Paolo Zanghieri
July 2005, Volume 30, Issue 3
- 353-372 Global Brokers, Global Clients: A New Operational and Ethical Context
by James W Hutchin - 373-386 The Complementarity between Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility
by Andrea Beltratti - 387-409 Corporate Social Responsibility: An Economic and Financial Framework
by Geoffrey Heal - 410-424 The Responsibilities of Accountants
by Ronald F Duska - 425-442 The Link Between Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility in Insurance
by Lutgart Van den Berghe & Céline Louche - 443-450 Towards a Good Governance in Financial and Insurance Services: Transparency in the Life Insurance Industry in Italy
by Giampaolo Galli - 451-466 Ethical Issues Facing Stock Analysts
by J Paul Newsome - 467-476 Investor Needs for Transparency and Good Governance, and Insurance Reactions
by Maurizio Lualdi - 477-484 The Role of Professional Organizations in Boosting Trust in Financial Business
by Brian K Atchinson - 485-497 Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability Challenges for a Bancassurance Company
by Emanuele Marsiglia & Isabella Falautano - 498-521 Insurers are not Banks: Assessing Liquidity, Efficiency and Solvency Risk Under Alternative Approaches to Capital Adequacy
by Paul Kupiec & David Nickerson - 522-532 Issues Relating to Collateral Requirements Imposed upon Alien Reinsurers of United States Ceding Insurers
by Ernst Csiszar
April 2005, Volume 30, Issue 2
- 187-222 Convergence in Wholesale Financial Services: Reinsurance and Investment Banking
by J David Cummins - 223-243 Insurance with Rent Schemes: An Empirical Study of Market Provision and Consumer Demand
by John Hood & William Stein & Claire McCann - 244-267 Evaluating the Efficiency and Productivity of Insurance Companies with a Malmquist Index: A Case Study for Portugal
by Carlos Pestana Barros & Nazaré Barroso & Maria Rosa Borges - 268-284 Can Insurance Firms Easily Exit from the Market? A Global Comparative Analysis of Regulatory Structures*
by W Jean Kwon & Hunsoo Kim & Soon-Jae Lee - 285-295 The EU Insurance Industry: Are we Heading for an Ideal Single Financial Services Market?
by Matthias Müller-Reichart - 296-311 Overcoming Past Obstacles to Insurance in the New EU Countries
by George M von Furstenberg - 312-326 Market Deregulation and Insurer Pricing Strategies: The Japanese Experience
by Nat Pope & Yu-Luen Ma - 327-342 Comparing Alternative Structures of Financial Alliances
by Raimo Voutilainen - 343-351 The Economic System as Catalyst for Evolving Liability Regimes*
by Patrick M Liedtke
January 2005, Volume 30, Issue 1
- 1-3 Priam's Daughter: 30 years of The Geneva Papers
by Patrick M Liedtke - 4-4 Introduction to the First Issue of The Geneva Papers, Originally Published in January 1976
by Raymond Barre - 5-10 The Changing Face of Risk Management (first published in 1976 in The Geneva Papers)*
by G N Crockford